Many of these paintings relate to political issues – Zalamea´s leitmotif. But what is new to his work is his writing. In this exhibition, which is on display at the Museum of Visual Arts at the University Jorge Tadeo Lozano until late June, his investigative texts are presented along with the rest of his work – indeed as part of it in relation to this exhibition.
This inquiry about geometry as something of value in photographic images took place at a time when Colombian art was just starting to take its first timid steps in geometric abstraction, something though that the rest of the world had already fully lived through and had indeed entered into the pop-art phase.
While looking for a theme for a new exhibition, Salazar Arenas settled on the images of these brokers, from New York, Germany, Brazil, Japan, France, Singapore, in front of their screens with different gestures. “Although they were different people regardless of where in the world were, anguish was on their faces. It was a desperation and helplessness at what was happening,” said the artist, a graduate of the National University.
Rojas was in a dimly lit room “drawing without thinking” with a black marker. Through an open window he heard the sound of the sea. A woman came and gave him the formula of harmony: “Balance centrifugal numbered forms,” a rather cryptic phrase that Rojas made him conscious of that harmony, that he was looking for patterns that are today repeated in his paintings as “something alive” and that “germinate” there.
Ok I admit it . . these works scare me! I am not sure that that is the intention of this Venezuelan artist whose exhibition has just started at El Museo gallery but they definitely creep me out!
Having said that I can also say – I love them!
Turkish art lovers in Istanbul are already enjoying the work of one of Colombia´s most unique contemporary artists, Fernando Botero (Medellín, 1932), considered the most valued Latin American artist currently living in the world and whose works are visiting Turkey for the first time.
As the artist, who graduated from the Universidad Nacional five years ago explained, while taking a hiatus from exhibitions during which time she started her family, much more of her time was spent at home taking care of her young children and much of what she was experienced was what she saw from her window: [...]